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I did the West earlier, let's see if the fans were as smart with the East.

The Eastern Starters are : In the East Sidney (duh), Lecavalier, and Alfredsson get the nod. Let's see if the fans did a good job voting?

So here's the Eastern Conference OIE leaders so far:

Player

ESP/20

ESG/20

ES TOI

ESP

Jason Spezza

1.26

0.38

585:31

37

Dany Heatley

1.18

0.54

709:28

42

Vincent Lecavalier

1.18

0.58

692:51

41

Sidney Crosby

1.12

0.42

623:21

35

Daniel Alfredsson

1.10

0.54

634:18

35

Ilya Kovalchuk

1.07

0.65

672:23

36

Mats Sundin

1.05

0.47

590:25

31

Alex Ovechkin

0.97

0.53

719:33

35

Evgeni Malkin

0.89

0.40

605:23

27

Nik Antropov

0.89

0.29

560:37

25

Cory Stillman

0.89

0.34

583:05

26

Matt Cullen

0.89

0.14

429:14

19

Vaclav Prospal

0.88

0.33

727:59

32

Tomas Plekanec

0.86

0.30

533:33

23

Ray Whitney

0.84

0.56

568:13

24

Marc Savard

0.84

0.26

619:45

26

Scott Gomez

0.81

0.16

621:01

25

Jason Pominville

0.80

0.27

522:55

21

Martin St. Louis

0.79

0.26

756:13

30

Olli Jokinen

0.74

0.33

671:29

25

Mike Richards

0.74

0.31

513:42

19

Zach Parise

0.73

0.28

573:51

21

Marian Hossa

0.69

0.34

582:49

20

Joffrey Lupul

0.68

0.34

530:52

18

Eric Staal

0.68

0.35

678:36

23

Mike Comrie

0.65

0.36

614:42

20

Rod Brind'Amour

0.64

0.31

651:53

21

Michael Nylander

0.64

0.19

529:03

17

Daniel Briere

0.64

0.32

561:19

18

Jaromir Jagr

0.57

0.24

664:08

19

Alex Kovalev

0.55

0.27

584:09

16

Brad Richards

0.37

0.09

699:26

13

From just this list you could make a strong, very strong, case for an All Senator-front line. Alfredsson is a full .3 above the next highest RW (Pominville), so Alfredsson is pretty much set at RW. On the Left Spezza is having a fantastic year, with challenges from only Kovalchuck and Ovechkin, but they are still .11 and .21 back. Yet somehow Lecavalier and Crosby, both centers and neither having as good a season as Spezza, at even strength anyways are getting the nod. Spezza does yield the Goal OIE so let's see if the Penalty +/- helps Sids or Vinney's case at all.

Spezza: -4Lecavalier: +4Crosby: +27

Yes Crosby leads the league in Penalty +/- (many will say he gets the superstar treatment.. it's hard to argue this when the next closest player is a full +5 behind him), but the +27 can't be ignored. That, along with the better goal OIE would push him over Spezza and Lecavalier in my book:

Eastern Forwards: Should have been Heatly, Crosby, Alfredsson. Overall not bad but could have been a touch better